Fearmongering and the 400ppm CO2 level

The headlines are comparative to Y2K and other end of the world predictions. If the right-wing were pushing an issue with such data, the left would be pointing out that in earths history, carbon dioxide has surpassed 1000ppm.

I guess those awful right-wingers drove SUVs some 2-4 million years ago. Those damned oil companies!

What 400ppm of CO2 looks like(Media Credit: wattsupwiththat.com)

What we are seeing here is alarmist natural resource haters, who wish to blame big-oil and their supporters for a natural fluctuation in the earths chemical make-up. This is agenda driven and plain junk science.

But since I am not a climatologist, I have provided a few such characters that will outline a bit more about the earths history and that a so-called number milestone is nothing more than fear-mongering to get eyes on the climate change and hopefully get legislation passed through various political institutions.

Don’t be surprised if President Obama starts using these numbers as part of his speeches as he does with gun control issues.

We say, keep calm and enjoy the expansion of the rainforest and other vegetation throughout the world. Don’t leftist care about the needs of the planets lesser lifeforms?

Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer: In Defense of Carbon Dioxide
The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlation with global temperature.

Of all of the world’s chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That’s simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.

The cessation of observed global warming for the past decade or so has shown how exaggerated NASA’s and most other computer predictions of human-caused warming have been—and how little correlation warming has with concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. As many scientists have pointed out, variations in global temperature correlate much better with solar activity and with complicated cycles of the oceans and atmosphere. There isn’t the slightest evidence that more carbon dioxide has caused more extreme weather.

The current levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere, approaching 400 parts per million, are low by the standards of geological and plant evolutionary history. Levels were 3,000 ppm, or more, until the Paleogene period (beginning about 65 million years ago). For most plants, and for the animals and humans that use them, more carbon dioxide, far from being a “pollutant” in need of reduction, would be a benefit. This is already widely recognized by operators of commercial greenhouses, who artificially increase the carbon dioxide levels to 1,000 ppm or more to improve the growth and quality of their plants.

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